So today, after 25 hours of remaining in the contestant pool for The Million Second Quiz I was disqualified from participation by a producer, who shall go unnamed, but only because I never bothered to learn her name, but I shall refer to her as 'that evil lady that screwed me out of 2 million dollars'.

Before I get to the specific incident, I will talk about myself, and why I may not be an innocent person, even though I am completely innocent of the justification used to dump me.

I came in to open casting call twice in the week preceding the event, then a third time on the third day of the event, and I was cast then and brought into the main area. At that time, they wanted to reschedule me immediately because but I wanted to stay and start attempting to get in the competition immediately. After resigning myself to it, I was chatting up someone else in line when someone, the woman I am speaking about, was kind enough to offer to let me in immediately. I was at first bewildered by it, and I asked "really?" and then she said it was a right now offer, so I immediately said yes, and the other person I was speaking with online asked to come in now too and we were allowed to.

That was the only kindness she offered me.

So I spent the day playing MSQ online, building my score, occasionally mugging the internet streaming camera in the room, partially to promote myself, mostly because the stream looked really boring with a room full of people either staring at computer screens or eating. Also, I kept collecting and putting 5 Hour Energy drinks into the shopping bag I had because I like them and am poor. Around 11, after a day of never doing well enough on pretests I was sent to reschedule and go home, and as I picked up my bag, chock full of 5 Hour Energys, she told me I couldn't leave with all that, to take one. So I did.

Next day, as I was coming in, she noticed me and mentioned she would be watching me. Which was fine. During the day I grabbed exactly one, a grape. But she kept hawking and hounding me. Later in the day, as with the day before, the large lights in the downstairs area were extremely bright and hot so I kept holding things up to block my face from them, which a lot of people took to be blocking my face. During a test down there, I stood near some lights and held a computer to shield from the light. She took notice and chewed me out, so I put it down and backed away, and she glared at me for more than a moment.

I came in a third day after failing to make it the day before, and I came in and greeted her warmly, and attempted to shake her hand, which she just kept walking and refused. Clearly, I had become an annoyance to her.

Aside from dealings with this person, the tests that I took involved being handed a clipboard, then the test, face down, writing down your name and contestant number and waiting to be told to begin the test. After the first few times, I realized that the method of simply marking my info and leaving the test down to flip, then insert into the clipboard took about 15 seconds, so to speed up my test taking I began a process of using both hands to flip the whole thing, leaving the clipboard face down and the test face up, and within a few seconds, using my right hand to flip the test over, while using my left hand to hold the clipboard open and then adjust the test into place, clamp it and place the clipboard on the table before me face down so when the go was given I could flip the board and begin immediately in comfort. I did that many, many times in the downstairs area in front of the cameras in the room; review of video will back up my precedent.

This method of securing paper in the clipboard, while it does leave the test face up, its for no more than a second or 2, and the clipboard's placement between my face and the tests obscures it. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANY PORTION OF A TEST PRIOR TO TAKING IT.

So on my third day, after her flat out rudely ignoring me at check in when I tried to be nice, the whole morning, whenever I noticed her in my peripheral vision, I would look up at her with a dirty look, full of annoyance and contempt. After receiving the second test of the day, in an upstairs area with no cameras (I think) while the clipboard was held in my left hand, test in my right, this was a moment I noticed her, looked up and looked at her for a moment. I saw her look at me. At the time, I was oblivious to what I was doing. She somehow perceived this as turning the test over and cheating.

I know if her memory serves her correctly, she HAD TO have noticed the clipboard's position, between my face and the test. Even if I held it face up for a moment, I could not have read a thing. And yeah, I know participation is 'at the producer's sole discretion', but I assert that her discretion was clouded by her personal dislike of me, her justification was FALSE, and I'm CERTAIN that there's tape of my flipping method, or perhaps some blue shirt noticed me doing it too and could back me up, but in any case, the idea that there was any impropriety on my part is a complete and utter lie, and that lie is costing me a possible 2 million dollars and for that reason I am going to refer to this person whose name I forget as 'evil lady'.

As I was leaving, a security guard said that I was taking this really well. May have looked that way but I was pissed off to high hell and know when the outlet is right, and fuming on the sidewalk means nothing to anyone.